Re: The Coachella Flu ...fact or fiction?

its the amount of different people our immune systems can't handle all the new people and since everyones immune system fights of different pathogens and carries different ones our own bodies don't know what to do with themselves so we get sick after and during cause its out bodies responding to all the new agents that they are exposed to.

I took my niece this year and it was her first Coachella. It was so fun to see it through her eyes. She thought it felt like a magical scene from Shreck. The one where all the fairy tale creatures meet for the first time in Shreck's swamp.

Re: The Coachella Flu ...fact or fiction?

ITs definitely the dust. After Friday night I came to my tent and cleaned out my nose and there was dirt allll in it. It was ridiculous

Originally Posted by menikmati

Make up rumors of who's playing > keep track of who's confirmed > whine about where the lineup is > lineup announced! > bitch about how the lineup sucks > whine about what bands will be added > bands finally added! > whine about where set times are > set times finally announced! > bitch about how set times suck > goto show > come back and say Coachella was best ever! > start rumors for next year

Re: The Coachella Flu ...fact or fiction?

I was fine in 2006 but after last year I was in horrible shape. It didn't occur until after Sunday though. I don't think it was the dust but rather the security guards spraying water in my face while in the front during Manu Chao and Rage Against the Machine.

Re: The Coachella Flu ...fact or fiction?

I'm putting it down to:

>>4 Nights of little to no sleep
>> 4 Days of dancing around in the sun with....
>>Copius amounts of alcohol and/or recreational narcotics
>> The 1000's of other sweaty people breathing your precious air when you're all crowded together
>> SHARING OF WATER BOTTLES EWWWWWWWW u DIRTY RAVERS :P

Mix them all up together and you got a recipe for a good time (which usually makes you sick afterwards)

Mythbuster verdict - Plausible

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Re: The Coachella Flu ...fact or fiction?

mine was definitely dust/allergy related, and not a virus. on the second day, i started sneezing pretty fucking bad. my nose was running and eyes were itching . by the end of that day i was miserable. the third day i started having breathing troubles. like, full on asthma type shit. i had to buy a primatine mist inhaler on the way to the airport the next morning. i wound up having to use it for 3 days after getting back home, and i wasn't "100%" for about a week.

it's actually my #1 concern with going back. i mean, i had a good time, but i was also MISERABLE. it's a lot harder to enjoy yourself when you can't fucking breathe.

i guess that's why all those people were wearing bandanas or surgical masks. i don't want to have to do that if i go again, but goddamn.

Re: The Coachella Flu ...fact or fiction?

Maybe I am a new breed of super human, but I always feel better after coachella - good food, good exercise, lotsa sun for my hermit-white skin. But my fiance is allergic to hay and winds up wheezing by the second night. Polo field = horses = hay, maybe you are all just getting hay fever, (which is actually just a cover term for allergies to lots of different seasonal pollens, which are most prevalent during dry, windy, and hot conditions; ie Coachella). Try taking an allergy pill like loratadine, (which is really cheap at Costco btw) a few days before you go and untill you get home, it will help.

Re: The Coachella Flu ...fact or fiction?

ashtraygrl, definitely start taking allergy meds a few days in advance (loratadine is a good suggestion - basically generic Claritin). If you have insurance, I'd also strongly suggest going to a doc and seeing if they will write you a prescription for an albuterol inhaler. It works a lot better than Primatene (which is epinephrine). Also, with all the dust and pollen in the air, it would help to flush out your nostrils a couple of times a day, or at least before you sleep. Drugstores sell little bottles of saline for this.

I feel your pain, the same thing happens to me if I have to be around cats, I am miserable for a few days after. If I know I'm going to be around a cat, I use an inhaler, and it helps a lot. My doc had no problem prescribing one for occasional use.

Re: The Coachella Flu ...fact or fiction?

if you need allergy pills/spray, be sure to bring it in a prescription bottle. They jacked my inhaler and pills two years ago... it was rough!

Last year I had to sneak shit in like a drug mule.

That's fucked.
It's like, I'm well old enough to drink yet I had to sneak in the alcohol like back in the prohibition days, felt well dodgy. Note to self, best way to smuggle shit in.... wrap it in your tent or just get someone to walk near the border of the fence (beer garden works best) and just chuck the bag (full of booze - be careful) over fence to someone that's waiting
We can do an allergy drug run this year, we'll organise a whole underground network, we can even flog off sudafeds for $3 a pop, lets do it....

Recent studies at Yale have shown that being an asshole is detrimental to one's health. Professor Sweetlove, a Psychology professor, came on record as saying:
"Assholes and local desert rats tend to live shorter lives and have less consensual sexual relations than non assholes. It could be due to lower testoserone levels or a chemical imbalance in the brain but some people are just wired to be.... well.... assholes"
Full story can be found here. AP

Re: The Coachella Flu ...fact or fiction?

The Coachella Flu==FACT

Interesting but not surprising that others have gotten sick. I was sick for about two weeks after Coachella in 2006.

I will break it down for you:
The inside of your lungs are moist and they like it that way. The dust/dirt, dry climate, and extreme heat dehydrate and inflame the lining of your lungs. Flu-like upper respiratory infections will follow. If you already suffer from allergies and if you exhaust yourself each day the symptoms are exacerbated.

Stay hydrated, wear a cloth over your mouth like those tools you've seen. Take allergy meds-Zyrtec is the best. Sit a lot when you are not dancing. Take a multi-vitamin. Try not to drink a lot of alcohol. It suppresses your immune system. Good luck! Being sick sucks.

Re: The Coachella Flu ...fact or fiction?

Originally Posted by dirty hippie

The Coachella Flu==FACT

Interesting but not surprising that others have gotten sick. I was sick for about two weeks after Coachella in 2006.

I will break it down for you:
The inside of your lungs are moist and they like it that way. The dust/dirt, dry climate, and extreme heat dehydrate and inflame the lining of your lungs. Flu-like upper respiratory infections will follow. If you already suffer from allergies and if you exhaust yourself each day the symptoms are exacerbated.

Stay hydrated, wear a cloth over your mouth like those tools you've seen. Take allergy meds-Zyrtec is the best. Sit a lot when you are not dancing. Take a multi-vitamin. Try not to drink a lot of alcohol. It suppresses your immune system. Good luck! Being sick sucks.

Re: The Coachella Flu ...fact or fiction?

Well, I remember this year when we heard the people who were spraying water around to keep the dust down to not walk through it barefoot. So that water probably has something in it... I'm thinking sewage runoff?

Originally Posted by psychic friend

the best songs are the ones that dont remind you of anyone in particular yet still give you that utter euphoric contentedness of perfection in your mind, body and soul. keep them close.